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Anyone who is part of a book club is very familiar with this constant question: What should we read next? Whether your club wants to travel back in time to exotic locations or prefers to wrestle with big issues in a contemporary setting, this sampler of eleven extraordinary novels has something for every book club: ***The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine*** by Alex Brunkhorst, ***Pretty Baby*** and ***The Good Girl*** by Mary Kubica, ***Come Away With Me*** by Karma Brown, ***The Wonder of All Things*** and ***The Returned*** by Jason Mott, ***Little Mercies*** by Heather Gudenkauf, ***Madame Picasso*** by Anne Girard, ***The Last Breath*** by Kimberly Belle, ***Teatime for the Firefly*** by Shona Patel and ***The Mourning Hours*** by Paula Treick DeBoard. Each excerpt is accompanied by a letter from the novel's editor explaining why the book is a perfect book club pick. There is also bonus material to enrich your discussions, including reading guides and author conversations. So, read on, enjoy, find the perfect book and be the star of your book club.

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About the author

Mary Kubica

1978

Mary Kubica is a New York Times bestselling author of suspense thrillers including ***The Good Girl***, ***The Other Mrs.***, and ***Local Woman Missing***. Her first novel ***The Good Girl*** was an Indie Next pick in August of 2014, received a Strand Critics Nomination for Best First Novel and was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards in Debut Goodreads Author and in Mystery & Thriller for 2014. Mary’s novels have been selected as Amazon Best Books of the Month and have been LibraryReads selections. They’ve been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. She’s been described as “a helluva storyteller,” (Kirkus Reviews) and “a writer of vic…